We had a few cancellations but still ended up with 30 people for the 5th annual Hazard birthday Team Serious Invitational!

The Drinks! (forgot to take a picture so this is the morning after)

Player meeting Jaegerbombs

The Donated Prizes!

Action shots!

After 5 rounds of swiss, the top 8 played out as follows:

Top 8

Andy Probasco - 1st place – HollowVine WGU vs Duane Haddix - 8th place – Skullclamp Robots – Andy Wins!

Jason Jaco – 2nd place – 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome vs David Lance – 7th place – 4 Color Survival - Jaco Wins!

Charles Rolko – 3rd place – BUG vs Phil Kwon – 6th place – Ninjas – Charles Wins!

Cody Napier – 4th place – Paradoxical Paradox Engine Outcome - vs Steve McGrew – 5th place – 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome – Steve Wins!

TOP 4

Andy Probasco - HollowVine WGU vs Steve McGrew - 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome – Andy Wins!

Jason Jaco - 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome vs Charles Rolko – BUG – Jaco Wins!

FINALS

Andy Probasco - HollowVine WGU - vs Jason Jaco - 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome – Jaco Wins!

Congrats to Jason Jaco for being the first person to have won 3 TSIs!

Here are the top 8 lists based on final standings:

Thanks to everyone that came out! Thanks to Hazard for hosting us and happy birthday!

You can find the Coverage here in our Twitch collection Twitch collection as well as on our Youtube channel

Metagame breakdown:

Archetypes:

Combo: (11)

4C PO (3)
3C PO
Paradoxical Paradox Engine
Vintage Singleton Combo
DPS
TPS circa 2011
Doomsday
U/r Sarkhan's Unsealing + Palinchron.
Dragon

Blue: (13)

BUG
Ninjas (2)
Jeskai Breach (x2)
Noble Fish
4C Planeswalkers (2)
Thassa's Oracle Fish
Jeskai Control
RUG walkers
BUG Thassa’s Oracle Combo Control
UWB Bazaar Fish

Shops: (3)

Skullclamp Robots
Ravager Shops (2)

Aggro: (8)

HollowVine WGU
4 Color Survival (2)
Christmas Beatings 2020
JacoEldrazi
Dredge (x2)
Mono Red Burn

(There are 35 deck archetypes with 30 players because 1 player was playing deck roulette with 6 different decks)

@Brass-Man This seems to be your event! Didn't you take down the last one with Death's Shadow Survival? Congrats!
Congrats to @JACO for winning this amazing tournament!

Thank you for posting the results.

Doomsday list?

@john-cox said in TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!:

@Brass-Man This seems to be your event! Didn't you take down the last one with Death's Shadow Survival? Congrats!
Congrats to @JACO for winning this amazing tournament!

There was one in between (won by David Lance), don't remember if Brassy was there or not.

@ten-ten It was Sam Krohlow's list: I played it on stream too, it needs some work, but still feels powerful.

@13nova
Thank you. I really appreciate it.

I vaguely remember tuning in on one of the games where he could've won on the spot but passed the turn.
Internet Service was horrible for me and the stream would freeze, so, I ended up coming back to it in time for the final match, Jaco v. Brass man.

Do you plan on doing a write-up of any kind, or update of sorts, on the new Doomsday?

I would really appreciate a write up/Primer as well.

Actual Doomsday list (the pictured maindeck is a couple cards off and the sideboard is not close):

The deck was really really powerful but I'm bad at magic now so I messed up a bunch. Should have easily won one of the matches I lost (it was on camera after the regular R3 or R4 match), probably could have won the others as well if I'd played better or mulliganed better.

List/board are 100% Sam Krohlow, his advice was basically to play like a control deck most of the time. Don't try to go off unless you're sure you got it (or, you know, you're about to die). I went off T2 maybe twice (mostly with DT -> Lotus -> DD -> free draw spell) because i had to, but otherwise most games didnt end until turn 6 or 7 at least.

Notable is the zero mana stack with top in play: gush/lotus/ancestral/oracle/petal (or sapphire): tap top, gush for lotus/top, lotus -> UUU, play top, tap draw, ancestral, U floating, 0 cards in deck, petal -> oracle. I won with that pile a couple times, including once on T2 facing lethal.

Personally i hated the shattering sprees in the board and wouldn't play them again. I'd try either an instant or another hurkyls or something. And I wouldnt mind having one more bomb maindeck, either another DD or maybe a tinker type effect or something, I had some games where I was clearly ahead but strugged to close out.

-Jimmy

@lhc
How often did you win just by setting up Consult/Oracle?

@lhc
Thank you for that.

I won with consult-oracle far more than I won with doomsday. Easier to set up and easier on the mana. That combo is the real deal.

@lhc said in TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!:

I won with consult-oracle far more than I won with doomsday. Easier to set up and easier on the mana. That combo is the real deal.

I think you would also just, like, forget to cast Doomsday sometimes.

I'm sorry that my misplay affected you so much, its the only thing you remember from the event.

@lhc said in TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 2/8/2020 Results!:

I'm sorry that my misplay affected you so much, its the only thing you remember from the event.

That's not true. I remember a lot and can watch the rest on Twitch. I also remember the match that had 30 minutes of shuffling.

The videos from each round are also up on YouTube under the Serious Vintage channel. Check those out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH-ba9DN4YQ&list=PL3klcfmNMPqH5nH3w4bJV3RIdUoZSOKMx

@grandpabelcher the ones I see on twitch are the same as the YouTube videos? I thought I’d see more videos on twitch.

@ten-ten The full video (almost 10 hours of it) should be available on Twitch. Not all of it is chopped up, though. If I get time, I'll try to pull out other sections.

@ten-ten I guess the full video is no longer available on Twitch. They only keep it for two weeks if you're not an affiliate. C'est la vie. Enjoy clips on YouTube. I think there's still some fun commentary about Cats, the movie.

@grandpabelcher no problem at all, thank you.